How many freshman at Wilson this fall?

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

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Anonymous wrote:There is no way that DCPS will build a new Highschool when most are sitting half empty. The bigger problem is that DCPS leadership is insular, arrogant, and not particularly smart. They think they have all the answers and don’t listen to teachers or the parent community.

+1. If the goal isn’t to close the achievement gap, don’t bother.

Achievement gap, you mean making the kids from say the Brookland Manor projects produce similarly to kids from Spring Valley. That is silly and naive to even work towards, what a complete waste of time and resources.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

This is about real estate balancing for all the new white people in NE and west of 16th st. Not about outcomes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

SF is actually getting rid of the city-wide lottery because it works so poorly and is driving families out of the city. The commutes are impossible for the parents.

The fact of the matter is that everyone wants a decent neighborhood school. I know that we have major issues with desegregation in schools because of the history of exclusionary real estate. Politicians should focus on desegregating real estate; the schools will follow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

This is about real estate balancing for all the new white people in NE and west of 16th st. Not about outcomes

This.

DC parents really just want to blow up the schools that work because if they can’t have good schools no one should. Even though they bought knowing they were on the bad side of town

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

SF is actually getting rid of the city-wide lottery because it works so poorly and is driving families out of the city. The commutes are impossible for the parents.

The fact of the matter is that everyone wants a decent neighborhood school. I know that we have major issues with desegregation in schools because of the history of exclusionary real estate. Politicians should focus on desegregating real estate; the schools will follow.

SF is city wide for all grades. I don’t know if it’s ever been city wide for HS only.

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Problem is that DCPS top people are idiots who have no clue how to improve neighborhood schools. They never actually spend time in schools and classrooms or get to know DC communities. They never talk to teachers who are actually at the frontline. They just keep pouring money into their favorite projects whether they are effective or not. They are obsessed with talking about the achievement gap because they keep track of the political winds but they don’t care enough to do more than make superficial changes.

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Imagine how high SF property prices would be if they had neighborhood schools! That is the only thing keep prices down!

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine how high SF property prices would be if they had neighborhood schools! That is the only thing keep prices down!

There are so many super-rich resident parents in SF that neighborhood schools won't do anything for property values. It's so easy for them to pay for private that they live wherever they want. The only thing a city-wide lottery has insured is for the public schools to suck for everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine how high SF property prices would be if they had neighborhood schools! That is the only thing keep prices down!

There are so many super-rich resident parents in SF that neighborhood schools won't do anything for property values. It's so easy for them to pay for private that they live wherever they want. The only thing a city-wide lottery has insured is for the public schools to suck for everyone else.

Very true. So randomly assign kids who are all over the place in academic levels and you think that is going to turn out well?? Force parents to drive all over the city in traffic to get their kid to school before going to work?? What a disaster. Who is going to put up with that when they have the means to go private or move?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine how high SF property prices would be if they had neighborhood schools! That is the only thing keep prices down!

There are so many super-rich resident parents in SF that neighborhood schools won't do anything for property values. It's so easy for them to pay for private that they live wherever they want. The only thing a city-wide lottery has insured is for the public schools to suck for everyone else.

Very true. So randomly assign kids who are all over the place in academic levels and you think that is going to turn out well?? Force parents to drive all over the city in traffic to get their kid to school before going to work?? What a disaster. Who is going to put up with that when they have the means to go private or move?

Apparently a whole lot of parents in SF comply with the lottery system, but they complain the whole time while participating in it. Hence the lottery system, finally, being discontinued there. One suspects most of them will continue to complain when they return to a local school system. Anyone who doesn't wish to complain has already left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

If you want to see well-off people make a run for the exits, that would be an excellent way to do it.

+100. Many middle and UMC families would leave the city. They can easily go to VA and MD and gat tracking. No one is going to wait around for the lottery and take a risk on high school. Real estate prices fall, city loses property taxes, etc...

Tracking is going to be gone within the next decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC needs to go all-lottery for HS

There is no successful model for that. SF does that and it isn’t working very well

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